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Building an on-demand fulfillment engine is hard

A Q&A with Kevin Henrikson & JJ Zhuang, our VPs of Fulfillment Engineering Kevin Henrikson and JJ Zhuang go together like PB&J — they’re the engineering “odd couple” that leads Instacart’s fulfillment engineering organization. Before...

Aug 18, 2021

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Making Groceries More Accessible with Research

A Q&A with Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge, Instacart’s Head of Research. We just welcomed Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge to Instacart Design as our new Head of Research. Elizabeth comes to us from Twitter, where she led the company’s research...

Aug 18, 2021

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A Small Engineering Team with a Big Impact

A Q&A with Instacart’s first VP of Algorithms We just welcomed Haixun Wang to Instacart as our first-ever Vice President of Algorithms and Distinguished Scientist. In his new role, Haixun will lead the team that...

Aug 18, 2021

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Say Hello to Jason James, VP of Design

We’re excited to announce that seasoned design leader Jason James has joined Instacart as our VP of Design. Jason comes to us from Thumbtack, where he grew the design team six-fold. In his new role,...

Aug 18, 2021

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Designing Digital Experiences That Augment the Analog World

Shoppers are the backbone of Instacart’s business. Every day, we’re energized by being able to help them serve customers more effectively and support their learning and development to build a long-term relationship. In their offline...

Aug 18, 2021

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Creating a Logical Replica from a Snapshot in RDS Postgres

In today’s world of data breaches and privacy concerns, every measure you can take to protect your data is another brick in the wall defending you. At Instacart , no matter how confident we feel...

Aug 18, 2021

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Announcing Coil 1.0

I’m very excited to announce the release of Coil 1.0 . Coil is a Kotlin-first image loading library for Android built on top of Kotlin Coroutines. It simplifies loading images from the Internet (or any...

Aug 18, 2021

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Solving the Infrastructure equation

A Q&A with Dusty Pearce, our first VP of Infrastructure How did you get into Infrastructure Engineering? I started out as a software developer and grew into infrastructure over time. My last few companies have...

Aug 18, 2021

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